Maruja Fuentes (March 4, 1978 – June 28, 2010) was a Puerto Rican architect and an industrial and environmental designer.
A native of Ponce, Puerto Rico, Maruja studied environmental design at the University of Puerto Rico, earned an undergraduate degree in architecture from the Catholic University of America, completed her master studies in architecture at Georgia Tech and studied furniture and textile design at Savannah College of Art and Design.
Some of her work was featured in 2008 as part of the exhibit space IDSA.NYC reserved at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF).
Her last year was teacher and coordinator of the Industrial Design programme of the Escuela Internacional de Diseño of the University of Turabo.
The majority of my concepts are derived from nature and aspects of daily life that usually go unnoticed or taken for granted.